Media Organization Software

tredec · August 23, 2025

Hello all,

I recently set-up my NAS and was hoping for some advice on media organizing software. If this topic is covered in depth already somewhere please feel free to link it.

In prep for my NAS, I digitized a large collection of CDs (~1,000) into lossless .FLAC which will serve the core library, and I used MediaMonkey to identify and store metadata so this collection is in relatively good shape. When I loaded some samples into Jellyfin, it looked pretty good. The problem is that I have multiple other copies of music libraries going all the way back to the iTunes and iPod days. Now some of that collection was digitized from the same CDs (but into .MP3s), but some of it was bought and downloaded and does not have a CD equivalent. What I'm looking for is a piece of software to help merge these disparate collections into one unified one and do the following:

If not present in library, copy it into library.
If present but lower quality in library, delete from library and copy new one.
If present but higher quality in library, delete new copy and don't replace.
Identify and download relevant album artwork and lyrics for use with Jellyfin.
Ideally be able to run on my NAS within a Docker container so I can just set-it up and keep adding to the ingest folders as I organize and consolidate from the various older back-up hard-drives.

I keep seeing Lidarr referenced in quick online searches, but that tool seems to be more intended for torrenting, which is not what I need. Is there any preferred softwares for this sort of task, where I can just dump the duplicate libraries into an ingest folder and let it gradually sort out and add any new stuff and upgrade any low quality pieces? I know that some of the albums will be duplicates so I can't just copy it all into the library, but I also know that there is a bunch of music that is not duplicated.

Thanks,

tredec